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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

When I was unemployed and playing video games while waiting for replies, I didn't qualify for any free healthcare and I needed some

I don't know what he's talking about

[–] ours@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Right-wing 101: "we need to destroy social safety net X because the immigrants/criminals/lazy/fraudsters are smooching it from hard-working, honest citizens!"

Translation: we need to take services away from the working class so gazillionaires can have an extra tax break and buy a bigger yacht to put their current yacht on.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'd love to play some video games, anyone know where I can find some of this free healthcare?

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

State Medicaid. Just make sure you keep your wage under the limits.

Don't do this... But that's what he means.

Sell drugs or have a hustle on the side and get more money. /S

It's the same game from the street to the big businesses. Big businesses and rich people just make charities and get offshore bank accounts to rape our economy.

[–] MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Looking forward to the federal thc hemp ban. Then I can grow weed for huge profit margins, quit my real job, and actually sit around and play video games without giving anything back to society all day like he's accusing us all of doing. Wish they'd make alcohol illegal too. We have enough dipshits in congress for this to happen after they do all this horrible stuff and then get angry when non of it accomplishes what they think it will accomplish. Moonshine is even easier to mass produce than weed and like 4000% easier to get away with.

[–] Buske@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

It's much worse than that, They have the entire US stock market rigged to so the same.

[–] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 days ago

Ah yes, young men. That notoriously healthcare obsesses group of individuals that do all they can to drain the system of all its funding. That's the problem.

It's a shame people actually fall for blatant lies like this.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 6 days ago

Ah, yes, because I don't need money for rent and food, just healthcare.

What a moron.

[–] Buske@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

LOL, Says the guy mooching off all of us for free healthcare and a paycheck.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Someone so disconnected with reality should not represent anyone.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Magats shit on women... Still get women votes... Shit in soliders still get soldiers votes... Shit on Mexicans.... Still get Mexican votes... Shit on men...still get men votes...

I don't know who this says more about... The voting group or Democrats that can't win despite this shit.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

They'll just keep turning the screws tighter if you let them.

Don't listen to their lies.

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

There was a billionaire, CEO to multiple companies, arguing that he’s one of the best in one of the most grindiest games…

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

It’s mooching off healthcare in the us, it’s a basic need for other countries.

Just pop some health potions

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Where does a young man get this free health care? I'm not young anymore, but for free health care I can pretend to be...

[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 2 points 6 days ago

As a father of two young men... Good!

Healthcare is a right. Especially in the richest nation in the history of humanity.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah! We gotta give people the choice to work or die due to lack of medical care! That's never been done before! What's that called?

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I mean I do know a lot of people with no real jobs that game all day and they have some sorta shitty health care that doesn't really get them proper treatment if that counts

[–] Zomg@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I make time to do both 🤫

[–] imTIREDnhungryboss@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 days ago

I've had it with these fucks I see him I'll kill him

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 367 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Can confirm. Here in Canada, nobody works. We all sit at home and play video games instead. There's no industry, no shops, no hospitals. Only video games.

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 117 points 1 week ago

Yeah, most people I know don’t have jobs! We just run extension cords between our igloos to power our video game machines. If it weren’t for them we could totally be like the States. 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

[–] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can confirm, only video games in the UK too. Certainly not the 6th largest economy in the world worth £3.84 trillion. Nor a labour force with 74.9% in employment, that would be silly!

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Norwegian living in Denmark. I moved from Norway because everyone was just gaming, but I wanted to go to gigs, so I moved. Turns out everyone games in Denmark all the time too! It must be why the Northern European countries score so high in the happiness rating: all we do is game all day. It's not like these countries have any money, especially Norway.

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 164 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Or, what if their healthcare continued to be free so they wouldn't have an incentive to find a way to live on $700 month?

I know one of those young men playing video games, and he REALLY wants a job, but no matter how he works the math, the medication that keeps him alive costs more than what he'd make. So, his only choice is to budget around permanent poverty or die.

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[–] Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world 126 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is absurd, considering Mike Johnson doesn’t work for a living. None of these government officials do anything worthwhile but still get paid for it.

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[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 100 points 1 week ago (12 children)

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Here's some more food for thought: what happens if they piss off the Eve players? Those clowns have basically been training themselves on how to come out on top in a no-hold-barred capitalist system.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 94 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

That does make sense considering every other developed country has free healthcare and literally 100% of their young men spend every waking hour playing video games.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He has no idea what the medicare requirements are, does he?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 week ago

His job is to spread lies and fear, so no reason for him to say something different, if he would know reality...

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 1 week ago

...says guy who gets free healthcare and is paid by a public who he does nothing good for and billionaires who bribe him to hurt the public.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

says some rich asshole who probably hasn't done real work a day in his life, likely living off dividends and bribe money

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[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (8 children)

working where exactly? working on a farm that will pay you minimum wage, if that? oh OH I know working in the tech sector where it's now and has been for the past couple years an absolute nightmare to find a job in.

There are NO jobs out there that will pay for the current cost of living and the ones that COULD aren't hiring, and if anything, are laying people off. And yeah, these unemployed young men are TOTALLY playing videogames that now cost $80 a pop paid via a job they don't have.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Videogames are the cheapest and most durable form of entertainment, ideal qualities when you don't have a job and resources to keep you busy. This fucker wants people to never escape being in misery.

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[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago

Translated: Adults 18 to 25 are using there parents healthcare and are not paying for the crappiest healthcare being offered at their first jobs.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, they want to take away healthcare young men don’t have so they’ll get jobs that don’t exist. Sounds like a conservative plan.

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[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lmfao what free healthcare?

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[–] mcange@feddit.org 51 points 1 week ago

Free healthcare?

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 1 week ago

What free healthcare?

Young men have to jump through the most hoops to get state level health insurance.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not concerned about some young videogamer getting free healthcare. I'm more concerned with the DOGE GOBLIN getting BILLIONS in government contracts to build rockets that blow up spectacularly, wasting a billion dollars with every explosion, just so he can quip "Just a scratch."

That's a billion dollar scratch that could have made a huge difference in thousands of lives.

I'm not worried about American citizens getting health care, I'm worried about Foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs getting BILLIONS in government contracts, paid for by taxes on the working class, while calling those same workers/taxpayers "parasites."

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The problem is that voters are so damn stupid that someone can make a statement like this without being interrogated.

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[–] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But where's the free healthcare?

[–] nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

He's probably (attempting) to reference welfare .... essentially trying to justify work requirements for it

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is this Free Healthcare in the room with us now, you miserable ghoul?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The argument is utterly stupid.

Ignoring that it is building on a fantasy reality for the moment. Even if you had free healthcare, and if only the financial costs of survival motivated people to get jobs, then the other costs of living, like for food and shelter, would still provide that motivation.

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[–] who@feddit.org 39 points 1 week ago

Man collecting handsome salary and amazing healthcare in exchange for betraying his entire country tries to shift the public focus onto people trying to make their lives less miserable with video games.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't accept the premise that working a job to make someone else rich is axiomatically good.

Many jobs make the world worse. I'd rather someone sit at home and play Tetris than build murder-drones, or work on some sort of AI powered stalking-ad company.

Many of the jobs are just bullshit. Another "AI" company? Another product manager with no real decision making power? A few billion dollars poured into "the metaverse"? Waste of time and resources.

That aside, most jobs make the owners rich while labor gets a few crumbs. You work all day making widgets. The boss pays you $10. They sell your widgets for $1000. That's a bum deal. But there's a thousand desperate people waiting to take your spot, plus union busters eager to betray labor and beat you up. Pay people the real value of their labor, and treat them with respect, and you'd likely get more people working.

Johnson is a heretical, hypocritical, piece of shit. No one should take him seriously. His church should -- wait, he's southern baptist? The "we're going to split off because we want slavery" sect? Not surprising. Those assholes suck.

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